fortyfivedownstairs presents Do not go gentle... by Patricia Cornelius directed by Julian Meyrick 5 - 29 August 2010 How is it possible to enter old age with grace when there’s so much to be done, things to achieve, places to go, loves to be loved and sex to be had? SHOW DETAILS: 5 - 29…
fortyfivedownstairs presents Cafe Scheherazade 8 March - 3 April 2011 20 August - 11 September 2011 Cafe Scheherazade returns to fortyfivedownstairs after a sold-out season SHOW DETAILS: 8 March - 3 April 2011 20 August - 11 September 2011 times: Tuesday to Saturday 8pm Sunday 5pm Café Scheherazade, a new Australian play by Thérèse Radic and…
fortyfivedownstairs in association with Melbourne Festival presents Whiteley’s Incredible Blue… an hallucination 13 - 23 October 2011 What lies inside the imaginations of an artist and addict? SHOW DETAILS: 13 - 23 October 2011 times: Tuesday to Sunday 8pm Friday & Saturday 10pm ticket price: $37.50 - $45 bookings: 03 9662 9966 In the intimate surrounds…
fortyfivedownstairs in association with Melbourne Festival presents Michael James Manaia 12 - 28 October 2012 What do you do when the country you grew up in – the country you fought for – has no place for you? SHOW DETAILS: 12 - 28 October 2012 duration: 130 minutes times: Tuesday to Friday 7.30pm Saturday 4pm…
fortyfivedownstairs presents Savages by Patricia Cornelius 16 August - 18 September 2013 ★★★★1/2 '….stunning, stylised work by one of our most original writers...' ArtsHub SHOW DETAILS: 16 August - 18 September 2013 opening night: Friday 16 August duration: 75 minutes times: Tuesday to Saturday 7:*30pm Sunday 5pm ticket price: $35 - $45 bookings: 03 9662 9966…
fortyfivedownstairs presents Dreamers 7 - 30 November 2014 ★★★★ 1/2 '...a romance of simplicity and much tenderness' Australian Book Review SHOW DETAILS: 7 - 30 November 2014 preview: Thursday 6 November opening night: Friday 7 November times: Tuesday to Saturday 8pm Sunday 4pm ticket price: $35 - $45 We're proud to announce the Australian premiere…
The untold stories of women who migrated from Greece to Australia in the 1950s and 60s.
After three sellout seasons, Marguerite Duras' chilling story of a brutal murder in small town France returns to the stage.
A dark and humorous new Australian theatre work about isolation and excess in modern life.
A limited return season of an extraordinary work that examines our dark past. Part of the 2018 VCE Drama Playlist.
A thought provoking new Australian work by Jillian Murray and Suzanne Chaundy with words by Simone de Beauvoir.
Broome is a tropical paradise, but also home to the idiosyncratic Sober Up Centre. Written in response to his own experience of getting sober, Dan Lee's story moves between a chaotic night the Centre and a long past tragic incident.
An unapologetic exploration of love and addiction. Audacious. Raw. In-your-face, LOVE is a work that talks about an Australia that is rarely explored on our stages.
SHIT, winner of four Green Room Awards, returns to fortyfivedownstairs after a sold-out season in 2016.
After a critically acclaimed season in 2018, Max Gillies returns to fortyfivedownstairs in Beckett's remarkable duet for solo performer and tape recorder.
A powerful new cabaret featuring Yiddish songs written in the Jewish ghettos of WWII.
Green Room Award winners Jillian Murray and Laurence Strangio re-join forces to present Joan Didion’s remarkable memoir
Daniel Keene returns to fortyfivedownstairs with The Curtain, written with his sharp ear for poetry and play.
After acclaimed seasons in the West End and on Broadway, winning both the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Play, 'The Inheritance' by Matthew López (inspired by E. M. Forster's novel 'Howards End') will have its Australian premiere in a bold new production directed by Kitan Petkovski ('The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven') and featuring a cast of 13 actors.
Following the success of 'kerosene' and 'SIRENS', Nichol continues his anthology series exploring love and loneliness across Australia with two new works written for and performed by Brigid Gallacher ('In The Club', Theatreworks) and Charles Purcell ('Apokalypsis', The Substation). Milk and Blood both present unflinching examinations of violence and desire, shame and self-sabotage, and the power of redemption.
From the team behind the acclaimed production of 'RUNT' – writer Patricia Cornelius ('Do not go gentle…'), director Susie Dee ('Savages'), and performer Nicci Wilks ('SHIT') – comes 'BAD BOY', a searing new work that boldly tackles the enormous issue of misogyny and domestic violence.
When a White House PR nightmare spins into a full-blown shitshow, seven brilliant and beleaguered women must risk life and liberty to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble. Lightning Jar Theatre returns to fortyfivedownstairs following their enormously successful production of Mr Burns: a post electric play in 2019, teaming with Trophy Boys director Marni Mount to present the Australian premiere of Selina Fillinger's whip smart, all female farce, featuring Lucy Ansell, Carolyn Bock, Candy Bowers, Jen Bush, Liliana Dalton, Hannah Greenwood, Tilly Legge, and AYA.
In 1897, from the solitude of his prison cell, Oscar Wilde poured his heart into a searing 50,000-word letter to his estranged lover Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas. Blistering with anguish and fury, De Profundis is Wilde’s unfiltered outpouring of pain, betrayal, and self-revelation – a plea for truth, a meditation on art, and a journey toward forgiveness. This powerful letter has echoed through time, and now, in an intimate special event crafted with director Dino Dimitriadis (Overflow, Arts Centre Melbourne) and featuring a live cello accompaniment by Conrad Hamill, the iconic Paul Capsis reads Wilde’s anthem for the right to love and live authentically, no matter the cost.
Following the acclaimed and twice sold-out Krapp’s Last Tape, legendary performer Max Gillies will again collaborate with director Laurence Strangio (L’amante anglaise) on another foray into “wistfulness, embarrassment, desire and regret” (The Age, 2018). Bringing together monologues by three inimitable playwrights, ENDGAMES is a bittersweet elegy to posterity and obsession. A resolute recluse declares his bequest, a shabby paramour is haunted by his past, and a beleaguered husband attempts a public lecture. Ranging from farce to melancholy, Gillies brings his particular tragicomic affinity to these desperate existential vignettes.
The acclaimed musical returns to Melbourne this July-August starring music theatre luminaries Helen Dallimore ('Wicked' and 'Legally Blonde') and Deidre Rubenstein ('My Fair Lady' and 'Shakespeare in Love') as the legendary mother daughter duo, Big and Little Edith (Edie) Bouvier Beale. This new production will be directed by Tyran Parke ('Elegies: A Song Cycle' and 'Ordinary Days') and presented by Clovelly Fox and fortyfivedownstairs.